Friday, July 8, 2016

Another chance

Ok, I'm going to back pedal a bit from my recent post "The Apple Experiment". One thing that prompted me to originally move to Google Drive from Apple's iCloud was because I was having trouble with my only Mac and started using my Chromebox instead. That's when it became evident that Apple's iCloud was never really suitable to be a truly platform-independent cloud service.

However, I have since ditched my Chromebox and am now back using Apple hardware again (I actually forked out for another iMac). So... yes that's right, I moved my stuff back to Apple's iCloud. It really does mostly work ok. And there is one advantage. Because all my iCloud data also sits on my local machine, I can easily back it up to external hard drives (something you can't really do with Google Drive).

I am still relatively unhappy with the stability of MacOS. Since my last post there has been at least one instance where I had to hold down my power button to reset again. This sort of thing normally happens when I'm doing something fairly intense.

Originally my big problem with it was happening when I was encrypting 5-6 large external hard drives. More recently it happened when I was syncing a very large amount of data via iCloud. Under normal usage I don't have a problem. However that is no excuse. An OS that buckles under pressure is still highly annoying.